YDL Boots, Mac OS 9 Does Not

[Jay Truesdale]

> 
> You're using yaboot, so I assume this is a New World machine?

Yes.

> 
> Jay Truesdale wrote:
> 
> >I have a rev A Bondi Blue iMac with a new 60 GB hard drive
> installed,
> >192 MB RAM. I've installed Mac OS 9 and YDL 3.1, YDL boots fine, Mac
> OS
> >just hangs, i.e. at the yaboot prompt I enter "m" for mac os and I
> see
> >"Booting MacOS..." and the machine hangs (I've waited >10 minutes)
> >until I reboot it.
> >
> >Here is how I set up the hard disk:
> >
> >Booted from Mac OS 9 CD, ran the disk tools and created two
> partitions
> >on the disk. I left the first one unallocated, formatted the second
> one
> >as Apple HFS, installed Mac OS9. System boots up Mac OS9 just fine.
> >
> >Booted from the YDL 3.1 CD, did an "install text" and went through
> the
> >entire process. I used the auto partition option which created three
> >partitions, 1st is the 1MB apple_partition_map, second is 3xxMB swap
> >and the third is the root (/) partition that I changed the size to
> be
> >around 15 GB. Told the install to install yaboot.
> >
> What I don't see is where the boot partition itself is 
> (Apple_Bootstrap). I think of the 2nd partition on the hd as the 
> "normal" place you wd expect to find it.
> 
> > Installed everything.
> >The installer found the mac os partition (judging by the size of it)
> >and I set "macos" as the boot label per the on-screen instructions.
> >
> >What am I doing wrong in regards to booting Mac OS9? Do I need a
> >different format for the MAC OS partition so yaboot can see it?
> >
> Can you use pdisk to furnish us with a list of your current partition
> 
> layout?

Sure:

pdisk -l /dev/hda
 
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
 #:                type name               length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                  63 @ 1
 2:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              54 @ 64
 3:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              74 @ 118
 4:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh             512 @ 192
 5:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition       512 @ 704
 6:     Apple_Bootstrap untitled             2048 @ 1216      (  1.0M)
 7:           Apple_HFS "MacOS9"         58593137 @ 58594353  ( 27.9G)
 8:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled         30719808 @ 3264      ( 14.6G)
 9:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap               786240 @ 30723072  (383.9M)
10:          Apple_Free Extra            27085041 @ 31509312  ( 12.9G)
11:          Apple_Free Extra                  10 @ 117187490
 
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=117187499 (55.9G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1:  20 @ 64, type=0x701
2:  33 @ 118, type=0xf8ff
 



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